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2022-07-07 Africa Horn
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Ties with Somalia prove Africa's importance for Turkey: Erdoğan
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[Garowe] Somalia is the main example that shows the importance The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor...
attaches to the economic development, social peace, and stability of the African continent, President His Enormity, Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First
...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than there are in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really most important...
said Wednesday.
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Speaking at a joint presser with his Somali counterpart Hassan Sheikh Mohamud in the capital Ankara, Erdogan said that Turkey has provided more than $1 billion worth of humanitarian aid to Somalia in the last 10 years.
That’s a lot of samolians... Surely Turkey didn’t get all that just from stripping all those Gulenists of all their possessions, and anyway they had to spend pots of money to build President Erdogan his absurdly large white palace. So where did Turkey get whatever they really spent on Somalia, playing reincarnating the Ottoman empire? Turkey's joint steps taken with the Mogadishu government in 2011 have helped Somalia revitalize, as the country was on the brink of collapse, Erdogan also said.
"In 2011, Somalia was on the brink of collapse as the international community articulated. So in 2011, we paid an official visit to Somalia with a large delegation to extend a message to the world that we are standing with our Somali brothers and sisters," he added.
Noting that the joint steps taken with Somalia have aided the country to revitalize and develop even further, Erdogan said the bilateral trade volume reached $363 million last year, which was only $2 million in 2013.
Turkey's largest embassy building in the world is located in the Somali capital Mogadishu, Erdogan said, adding that his country is proud of it.
For his part, Mohamud thanked the Ottoman Turkish nation for its investments in Somalia, expressing appreciation to Turkey and its people for the endeavor and efforts about the humanitarian situation his country has been facing.
Erdogan welcomed Mohamud, who was on a four-day official visit to Turkey, with an official ceremony at the Presidential Complex.
The leaders held one-on-one talks before delegation-level meetings followed by a signing ceremony and a joint news conference.
Earlier in the day, Mohamud visited Anitkabir, the mausoleum of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, founder of the Ottoman Turkish republic, and laid a wreath at his gravesite.
Paying tributes to Ataturk, Mohamud wrote in the visitors' book: "Being a supreme commander leading the Ottoman Turkish nation in the difficult days of history has made you a torch for the Ottoman Turkish nation on this path to peace."
Prior to his Ankara visit, the Somali president met with Somali soldiers receiving commando training in the western Ottoman Turkish province of Isparta.
"I visited our brave soldiers undergoing commando training in Isparta, Turkey, with the assistance of the Ottoman Turkish government," he wrote on Twitter.
"I met some great future Somali military officers & leaders & I am proud of them all. We are grateful to Turkey for this valuable security assistance," he added.
Bilateral relations and steps to enhance cooperation were mainly discussed in depth during the visit. This was Mohamud's first official visit to Turkey at the presidential level after taking office in May. He also served as Somalia's president between 2012 and 2017.
Turkey’s engagement with the African continent has been gaining pace over the years. Since taking office nearly two decades ago, first serving as prime minister, Erdogan has been fostering ties with Africa, presenting Turkey as a fairer player than the continent’s former colonial powers.
Ankara has been stressing the desire to advance relations with the continent on the basis of a win-win relationship and equal partnership while observing mutual respect. Both sides have been vowing to tap into their greater potential when it comes to further expanding and deepening relations.
The Ankara-Mogadishu partnership is "extremely positive and growing by the day and by the night," also said the visiting Somali president on Tuesday.
Speaking at a panel titled "Benefits of the Turkey-Somalia Partnership," Hassan Sheikh Mohamud said: "Among the key benefits of Somalia's relationship with Turkey is a strong political and diplomatic connection, and cooperation in the fight against global terrorism."
He said the centuries-old relationship between Somalia and Turkey is based on respect and cooperation, adding that "the whole world was astonished" when Erdogan paid a visit to Somalia in 2011 at the height of a humanitarian crisis in Mogadishu.
In every meeting with Erdogan, Ottoman Turkish government officials, civil society members, and the business community, Somalia is "seen as more than just an opportunity," Mohamud told the panel held by the Ankara-based think tank Foundation for Political, Economic and Social Research (SETA).
"It is not only humanitarian (concerns) that drives the Ottoman Turkish energy to support Somalia, but it is a value-based faith that is what drives the Ottoman Turkish government and the Ottoman Turkish people to support Somalia," he added.
Somalia has received support from all over the world for the last couple of decades, but Turkey's support is "unique and different," Mohamud said.
FIGHT AGAINST TERRORISM
Somalia has been struggling with the al-Qaeda-affiliated international terrorist organization al-Shabaab
...... the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord...
for 15 years, as it has harmed many lives in the Horn of Africa country.
The president stressed the importance of security for Somalia, saying: "We wanted to focus on building Somalia's core governance structures and systems to be as inclusive, transparent, and beneficial as possible to enable our country to be more unified, stable, and with sustainable development.
"Somali people will be at the core of implementing this vision. We know that it has also managed to do the heavy lifting for their own future."
This vision, he said, is a journey rather than a race. "Social cohesion on public trust in the national institution will take place. We have a social reconciliation agenda to reconcile our society in all their settings."
Mohamud said ending al-Shabaab's violent mostly peaceful insurgency requires more than a military approach, and his government will negotiate with the turban group only when the time is right.
He said the al-Qaeda affiliate responsible for deadly attacks across East Africa had developed a "coping mechanism" against military aggression and could not be eliminated by force alone.
Al-Shabaab has been seeking to overthrow the foreign-backed government in Mogadishu for over a decade and remains a potent threat despite efforts to defeat them militarily.
Mohamud said past approaches to al-Shabaab had not worked, and his government was open to alternatives, including talks when appropriate.
"We are not right now in a position to negotiate with al-Shabaab. We will, at the right time," Mohamud said.
"Even now ... we open the door for those who want to denounce the violence, the turban ideologies and join the mainstream life in Somalia."
Al-Shabaab fighters were driven out of Mogadishu in 2011 by an African Union
...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful...
force, but the group still controls swathes of the countryside and has the capacity to launch frequent and deadly strikes on civilian and military targets.
Mohamud said containing the snuffies in Somalia and degrading them militarily, the two key policies of past Somali administrations backed by foreign partners, had not proved enough on their own.
Al-Shabaab had "developed a coping mechanism so that even if their facilities are destroyed, they have the capacity to reestablish it again" and return to the battlefield, he said.
The former academic and peace activist muppet said that cutting off al-Shabaab's financial flows and countering their hateful message needed to complement a military approach to tackling the turbans.
Shortly after his election, Mohamud welcomed an announcement by U.S. President Joe The Big Guy Biden
 ...46th president of the U.S. You're a lyin' dog-faced pony soldier . Of course Corn Pop is a real person....
to redeploy American troops to Somalia, reversing a decision of former President Donald Trump
...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and whatever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States...
to withdraw most U.S. forces from the fight against al-Shabaab. 
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